Police investigating abduction, rape

Posted: Friday, February 20, 2004

A 32-year woman told Athens-Clarke police she had been abducted near the intersection of North Lumpkin and Strong streets at about 6 a.m. Thursday and driven to an unknown location where she was raped.

The woman told police someone grabbed her from behind and put a bag over her head and forced her into a vehicle driven by a second person, according to police. After the assault, she was dropped off on Wall Street at about 6:30 a.m., at which time she walked the few blocks to City Hall where she saw a friend who drove her to the hospital, police said. The woman told of seeing a fuchsia, older-model car speeding away, police said.